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ear. Paul, during his infancy, was 
rought up on the sea coast, where Ar- 
bigglingly is situated, and a sea-faring 
life being adapted to his disposition, 
he early acquired the. habits and man¬ 
ners peculiar to its nature, which the 
local circumstances of the people and 
country assisted. 
The choice made by Paul of a profes¬ 
sion, to the dignities of which he as¬ 
pired, contributed, eventually, to his 
rise and celebrity, by lifting him from 
obscurity, and enabling him to play, 
at least, a secondary part, on the stage 
of public politics. The sea proved fa¬ 
tal, however, to his legitimate brother, 
the heir to the family estate, who 
erished during a voyage in an open 
oat, between Arbiggling and Carlisle ; 
his first cousin now enjoys the estate. 
Paul went to sea, sailed to America, 
and there found himself an humble ad¬ 
venturer: but his conduct manifesting 
all the characteristics of intrepid and 
persevering valour, aided by active vi¬ 
gilance, his sentiments also being truly 
patriotic, on the war breaking out he 
displayed a degree of vigour, which 
gave an impulse to American energies, 
and his exertions contributed to their 
assistance, in repelling the aggressions 
of Great Britain. 
Paul had military talents, with cool¬ 
ness and judgment. In his cruise in 
the British seas, he signalized alike 
his skill and prowess, and from the 
promptness and decision with which he 
acted, our officers conceded to him 
superior understanding and a deter¬ 
mined mind. He Vras a man much 
talked of in the world, and if caressed 
by the principal actors in different go¬ 
vernments, it was personal merit that 
constituted the ground of his fame and 
elevation. 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
To deliver my opinion on this sub¬ 
ject, I shall premise that my senti¬ 
ments are similar to the language which 
philosophy has ever assumed. That 
labour is honourably and profitably em¬ 
ployed by parents in the instruction of 
their children, which exhibits and in¬ 
culcates, produces and confirms, mild¬ 
ness and benevolence of character to¬ 
wards their fellow animals. Moral im¬ 
provement ought to be a general ob¬ 
ject, preparatory in education to that 
which is intellectual. It is not the 
bipes impennis only that can resist and 
complain. Other species, whatever be 
their necessary inequality, are adapted 
to their different functions, in the or¬ 
der of beings, and are equally proper 
for their several destinations in the 
diversity which pervades the fitness of 
things. 
As those are the best governments, 
and the best upheld, which act system¬ 
atically on this principle, a portion of 
tuition, public and private, ought to be 
directed accordingly. Parents should 
enter fully and minutely into this sub¬ 
ject, as it is a matter of the first im¬ 
portance to render liberal sentiments 
compatible with extensive knowledge 
and mental vigour. 
Man arrogates to himself the proud 
title of Lord of the creation: if he is the 
first in dignity, he should extend his 
protection to the dependent creatures, 
a part of whom suffer from his unpa¬ 
ralleled injustice, supported by his 
extraordinary power. 
The parent who, either from indiffer¬ 
ence, or a savage disposition, allows a 
son to be brought up without forming 
or correcting his judgment, in accord¬ 
ance with the principle here considered^ 
must expect to reap a crop of ingrati¬ 
tude on the part of the child. Without 
knowing or wishing to know any thing 
of his family, sure I am that some gross 
mismanagement must have taken place 
in the education of the late Mr. A- 
of Hampstead, or he could not have 
ordered a game fowl to be roasted 
alive, because it had refused to fight 
another animal of the same kind at a 
cockpit. 
APOLOGIES for ABUSES. 
There is no abuse, ancient or modern, 
for which ingenious men will not em¬ 
ploy their art to find an excuse. France 
was overrun by a swarm of drones, 
secular and legular, “ black, white, and 
grey, with all their trumpery.” A dis¬ 
play of erudition is pleaded in exten na¬ 
tion of the offence of idleness. In 
46 Laboriosus nihil agendo ” we discover 
the great character of the genus , and 
we put it to this test, but we see that it 
is connected with some collateral good 
in the species. Hence we are told that 
the Benedictines cherished a love for 
the knowledge of antiquities ; that the 
Dominicans, for their scholastic philo¬ 
sophy, reflected lustre on their order; 
so also the Jesuits, for raising literary 
fabrics, formed on classic models, and 
the Oratorians as men of capacity 
and information in the higher branches 
of the mathematics. 
cure for the gravel. 
Take leek roots, cut them into pieces, 
and boil a quart until reduced to a pint, 
in 
